Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)

Hello everyone, (top-posting due to tangent nature of discussion) Just a thought here, in my experience, swfdec[1] works far better than gnash for flash websites; why not use that? There's a Firefox/Gecko plugin called swfdec-mozilla which works beautifully. swfdec{,-mozilla} use gstreamer, are

Re: XOs with no sound

Happy New Year. We don't use the Measure Activity. Here are the most frequently used Activities using sound: - Scratch version 11 (with resume sound problem, ticket #6201) - Record version 59 - Browse version 98 with Adobe flash plugin version 10.0.12.36 (gnash deinstalled) for a flash based

Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)

On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 14:16 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: swfdec{,-mozilla} use gstreamer, are LGPLed, and support most of the Flash 9 features whereas gnash supports only a few of the Flash 9 features. swfdec is also the default Flash player on Fedora, and is the preferred flash player on

Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla?

Hi Nirbheek! swfdec{,-mozilla} use gstreamer, are LGPLed, and support most of the I've never really tried Swfdec before, but if it also uses Gstreamer for decoding SWF sound (almost always encoded in MP3), we'd still end up with the same problem as that currently experienced in getting sound to

Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.

Hi, I'm having problems: Adobe FlashPlayer doesn't detect the XO's built-in webcam so it can't transmit video out to the Internet on Flash-enabled web sites, and the Adobe Flash player on the XO freezes the popup right-click control panel. Gnash didn't work at all with a Flash-based web

[Fwd: Problems with Adobe Flash player on the XO.]

Regarding my prior message, I just found this bug report at Adobe regarding camera not working with FlashPlayer on Linux, but it says that FlashPlayer 10 should resolve the problem. Apparently it didn't on the XO. https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-137 Stan Original Message

UDP broadcast from an XO

Hi, I have an activity which broadcasts messages over UDP to all the systems connected to the network. I ran into a problem while testing it out on the XO. The messages broadcasted are received by other XO's if both of them are connected to a common WiFi router. But when they are connected to

Re: UDP broadcast from an XO

Visibility in Neighbourhood View is determined by access from the XO to the Jabber server. The Jabber server does not relay these UDP packets for you. Therefore visibility is not an indicator of ability to operate over UDP. A wireless router will relay the UDP packets. The relay is being done

Re: UDP broadcast from an XO

On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, qu...@laptop.org wrote: Visibility in Neighbourhood View is determined by access from the XO to the Jabber server. The Jabber server does not relay these UDP packets for you. Therefore visibility is not an indicator of ability to operate over UDP. A wireless router

Re: Why not use swfdec-mozilla? (was Re: Installing Flash on the OLPC)

swfdec{,-mozilla} use gstreamer, are LGPLed, and support most of the Flash 9 features whereas gnash supports only a few of the Flash 9 features. swfdec is also the default Flash player on Fedora, and is the preferred flash player on Ubuntu. Quick clarification. We discussed making swfdec

Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.5.1-dev03 with ejabberd goodness, kernel bling, Access Point workingness... looking for xmas testers

Hi Rueben, Hope you had a nice time over Christmas and new Year! Sorry to bring this down to earth again...but life goes on.. J I have reinstalled a fresh install. On starting, the server now shows OLPC School Server release 9-0.5 Kernel 2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686 on an i686 (tty1)